I find it completely amazing that no recordings, videos, or even pictures have leaked out of the White House yet. The last seven years have brought amazing developments in the technology of small electronic consumer devices from cell phones, to handheld recorders, and you can even find recorders built into a digital camera off the shelf.
It doesn't surprise me that the tape recorders have been removed or turned off in the White House since the days of Nixon. It does surprise me though that no one has used the power of handheld technology to capture some key conversations and turn them over to the public.
I'd like to bet that a number of key people in the White House administration have probably been banking personal recordings for several years now so they could CYA when the time came. Maybe that's how Scooter Libby really got his quasi pardon.
Maybe Mr. Libby captured a recording of Vice President Cheney issuing an order to destroy Valerie Plame and her husband and expose her as being a CIA agent. We have all seen the legal shenanigans that Cheney is pulled in relation to this event just recently as he's claimed that he is not a member of the executive nor the legislative branches of government. It's obvious that they didn't think of that logic loop until recently otherwise they could have used in the very early days and they would have never needed a scapegoat like Libby.
That suggests to me that they've known the problem existed for a long time and they just them looking for a way to talk your way out of it.
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